pequeno

See also: Pequeno and pequeño

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pequeno, probably from Vulgar Latin *peccuīnus, from *pittīnus, perhaps from a Celtic root. Cognate with Portuguese pequeno and Spanish pequeño.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈkeno̝/

Adjective

pequeno m (feminine singular pequena, masculine plural pequenos, feminine plural pequenas)

  1. little, short, small; smaller
    Home pequeno, fol de veleno
    A little man, a bag of poison
    (proverb)
  2. young; younger
    Este é o meu irmán pequeno.
    This one here is my younger brother.

Derived terms

  • pequerrecho

References

  • pequeno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • pequeno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • pequeno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • pequeno” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • pequeno” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pequeno, probably from Vulgar Latin *peccuīnus, from *pittīnus, perhaps from a Celtic root. Compare Spanish pequeño, French petit and Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɪ.ˈke.nʊ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨ.ˈke.nu/

Adjective

pequeno m (feminine singular pequena, masculine plural pequenos, feminine plural pequenas, comparable)

  1. small
    • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 137:
      Rony ralhou com um aluno do primeiro ano particularmente pequeno [...]
      Ron scolded a first-year student particularly small [...]

Inflection

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Derived terms

Noun

pequeno m (plural pequenos, feminine pequena, feminine plural pequenas)

  1. (colloquial) child
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